Import Export not working

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  kerimfriedman · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 4:52 am

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  I am moving my blog to a self-hosted wordpress install, but the import/export tools don’t work properly. I have already fixed any problems due to php.ini and file size, even breaking up my xml file into smaller files, but I still get these errors:

  “Failed to import post tag” when trying to import my data.

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  kerimfriedman · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 5:36 am

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  I’ve created a brand new WP install with no plugins except the import tool. Here is the resulting error log from the import:

  http://pastebin.com/EQCPysqD

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  kerimfriedman · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 6:27 am

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  I was able to finally get things to work by the following steps.

  1. As above, installing into a temp directory. Although there were errors (as listed above), the number of posts and comments and tags was all correct.

  2. I ran wp-optimize to remove drafts and revisions, etc.

  3. When I did export I only exported published posts.

  4. When doing import, I created new users instead of importing into existing user accounts. (I will clean this up later.)

  This was not pretty, but I seem to have managed to produce the correct number of imported posts.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 11:06 pm

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  Hi Kerim,

  I’m sorry for the delay, but I’m so glad you were able to get it to work! I’m sorry the import took so long!

  Happy Blogging!